the russian engineer argued, the event at tunguska resulted from a nuclear explosion, why would that lead to h

Question

if,as the russian engineer argued, the event at tunguska resulted from a nuclear explosion, why would that lead to his conclusion that a spaceship was the cause?

Answer 1

the explosion on siberia in july 1905 is thought to have been either a meteor,or a particle of antimatter causing first a blue pipe in the sky terminating at ground level,,,,then an event that leveled hundreds of sq miles of forest,flattening trees in a matchstick pattern,,,,,,,,explosion occured above ground,,,,maybe a couple hundred feet,,,knocking down a reindeer herdsman name ilya,singing his eyebrows,knocking dishware from a storage shed,killing a few of the guys reindeer,,,a spaceship?,,,,donno

Answer 2

The pattern of felled trees photographed from the air came back to everybody's minds when photographs of felled trees in a similar pattern around Hiroshima or Nagasaki were published. This is the sort of similarity which cranks like Charles Berlitz or Erich von Daniken pounce on, and yell "See! It must have been a nuclear explosion, because it looks the same, and nothing else does".

Unfortunately, the tree pattern is simply due to a high-altitude airburst explosion. Tunguska is the only known example from a non-nuclear high-altitude airburst, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only known examples from a nuclear high-altitude airburst. There were other high-altitude airbursts in early nuclear tests, but not over forested areas.

Answer 3

It occurred in 1908 when humans had not yet invented nuclear weapons.

However, most scientists think that the "Tunguska Event" was caused by the explosion of a comet or meteor when it became superheated in the Earth's atmosphere.

Answer 4

Because a nuclear explosion can't occur naturallly--and in 1906 Einstein had just published his findings. No one on earth could have build a nuclear device, even if they'd known how--which no one did.

It's an interesting incident--and probably the only real documented incident that actually COULD have been an extraterrestrial. But that is still unlikely. Radiation traces were found, but most likely came from natural radioactives in the meteorite that caused the explosion.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

A nuclear explosion of that size would only be obtained from a fission process (splitting of very heavy atoms). Since that couldn't occur naturally, he declared that an intelligence was involved.

But the first poster is correct - it's either a meteor or small comet that entered the atmosphere & exploded. I would tend to doubt the anti-matter explanation.

Answer 7

Because no human technology existed at the time to produce a nuclear explosion, raising the possibility of nonhuman technology.

Besides, I think it's pretty clear by now that the culprit was a meteor or comet. I seem to recall they found lots of iridium at the site, which meteorites have in greater abundance than on earth.

Answer 8

The event was in 1908 - no one knew anything about nuclear power, nuclear bombs, or any of that.
And at that time and for decades after people believed that every moon and planet in our system and almost every star had intelligent life - a space ship was a logical answer.

Answer 9

Because that's what he chose to believe without any scientific data or proof. There was probably a bit too much vodka in his cornflakes that morning.